I love DEVO! It's a shame they don't even keep a slot open for them at places like Best Buy, at least in the CD section of the stores I've been to. Course they really only had three good albums and they were all so long ago, but still, such an influence on a lot of the bands we wind up talking about around here like the Dismemberment Plan and Enon. Thanks for the tip!

The phrase 'less than exemplary' comes to mind

Wrong! Have you even heard the later albums? Shout and Oh No! It's Devo! are awesome (and I don't mean by my extremely flexible standards). I like their later albums, but now we're getting into music-slut territory.

Ho ho ho, I think we've been through this before, haven't we you DEVO fanboy? Or maybe it was with one of your Rave Recs zombie bretheren. DEVO is cool, no question or argument. But nobody was that good for 5 or 6 albums. Awesome? You're losing touch with reality. You need to develop a sense of objectivity, my friend

Wrong! Have you even heard the later albums? Shout and Oh No! It's Devo! are awesome (and I don't mean by my extremely flexible standards). I like their later albums, but now we're getting into music-slut territory.

I will be getting this DVD...at some point...

Last year, huh? I almost made a road trip up to NYC to see that show.

I really like those albums too, as well as New Traditionalists, but I still think the first three outshine those middle period albums. But there's definitely a lot of great stuff on those albums.

I've had that site that sells that DVD bookmarked a little while now - I should just pull the trigger and get it.

I really love DEVO

I knew a guy in the NAVY who saw them in Japan (way back when) and he said they rocked as hard as any metal band, doing vastly different versions of their well known songs.

I personally owned Freedom Of Choice, New Traditionalists, Oh No, Its Devo, and Shout! on cassette. I remember when they made a guest appearence on a TV show called Square Pegs (the show actually featured a lot of new wave music---totally different head, totally) I remember the theme song was done by The Waitresses...'square pegs, square pegs...square..square..pegs...Always..never..quite ...right... The Waitresses also had a hit single at the time, 'I Know What Boys Want'.

*Sorta funny story: When I first checked into Whidbey Is NAS (Washington state), I was given a questionaire about my personal profile, and one line asked me of my religious background, ie, church of choice, and I wrote down, New Traditionalist. I musta got several different denominations knocking on my door wondering what the hell that was...and they all had the same bewildered look on their face when I told them what 'it' was. I must admit...I was quite an ass in my youth. But I feel good about it....

Face to Face
Something Else
The Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround Pt. 1
Muswell Hillbillies

Originally Posted by Davey

Awesome? You're losing touch with reality. You need to develop a sense of objectivity, my friend

Since I somehow got into the middle of this, I'd like to say (since we're all being so objective here) I don't believe either one of you and my opinion is the right one. The middle period albums are good, but not great.

Touché, my kinky friend, although I never quite appreciated Lola or Muswell Hillbillies as much as some of you do, the latter being the best of the two in my mind but not quite up to the greatness of Face to Face or Village Green or Arthur (Something Else being down a tad as well). But it was quite a run of great albums. Have you yet had the opportunity to hear anything from the Augie March Strange Bird album I've lately been championing with comparisons to our much beloved, charming and insightful chroniclers of life in the village green? Really, really nice album. The Kinks comparison doesn't really do it justice since it doesn't sound at all like an imitation, but that's just what comes to my mind because it does have much of the same charm and that uniquely British sound, even though in this case from a different continent and hemisphere. This one is very likely gonna cost me some money to explore how they got to this point, especially since at least one person has told me that this isn't even their best work.

Have you yet had the opportunity to hear anything from the Augie March Strange Bird album I've lately been championing with comparisons to our much beloved, charming and insightful chroniclers of life in the village green?

No, I haven't heard it, nor have I heard anything by Augie March. Sounds like something that would be right up my alley, though.

Originally Posted by Davey

I never quite appreciated Lola or Muswell Hillbillies as much as some of you do,